Dead-End Memories

By Banana Yoshimoto

Japan’s internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and everyday sorrows that surround...

Idol Burning

By Asa Yoneda, Rin Usami

Idol Burning

By Asa Yoneda, Rin Usami

Idol Burning

By Asa Yoneda, Rin Usami

Premonition

By Asa Yoneda, Banana Yoshimoto

Premonition

By Asa Yoneda, Banana Yoshimoto

Picnic in the Storm

By Asa Yoneda, Yukiko Motoya

Under the Eye of the Big Bird

By Hiromi Kawakami

From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are nearing extinction, and rewrites our understanding...

The Lonesome Bodybuilder

By Yukiko Motoya

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, these eleven surreal tales, set in the offices, zoos, bus stops, boutiques, and homes of contemporary Japan "are reminiscent, at least to t...

Moshi Moshi

By Banana Yoshimoto

"A beautiful translation . . . Yoshimoto deploys a magically Japanese light touch to emotionally and existentially tough subject matter: domestic disarray, loneliness, identity issues, lovesickness...